JOSEPH KENT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1826.

CHAP. LXX.
An Act to authorise the Reverend Henry Lyon Davis to remove certain Ne-
groes from the State of Delaware to this Slate.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the Reverend Henry Lyon Davis be, and he is hereby
authorised and empowered, to import and bring into this state-
from the state of Delaware, the following named slaves, viz.
one negro man Frank, one woman named Araminta, one woman
named Alice, one woman Charlotte, and small child Harriet, and
to have and hold the said negroes, in the same right as if they
had never been taken out of this state.

CHAP. 70

Passed Feb. 9, 1827

Authorised to re-
move negroes in-
to the state

CHAP. LXXI.
An Act to provide for the Preservation of the Records belonging to the Of-
fice of the Clerk of Somerset County Court.

Passed Jan. 17, 1827

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly by the
levy court of Somerset county, that many of the record books
belonging to the office of the clerk of Somerset county court,
have, from long use and for the want of a suitable depository,
become injured and defaced; for remedy whereof, .

Preamble

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Ara Spence, of Worcester county, and Littleton Dennis,
Senior, and William Done, Esquires, of Somerset county, be
and they are hereby appointed commissioners to inspect the re-
cords belonging to the office of the clerk of Somerset county
court, and to ascertain what record books belonging to said of-
fice require to be transcribed, or require new indices and new
binding; and if, upon examination, they, the said commission-
ers, or a majority of them, shall find that any of the said records
require transcribing, or new indices, or rebinding, they shall be,
and are hereby authorised and empowered, to direct the clerk of
said county court to transcribe, or cause to be transcribed, the
same, in new andnvell bound books, and to annex new indices,
and to cause to be rebound such records now remaining in said
office as they, or a majority of them, may deem necessary to be
transcribed, or to require new indices, or to be rebound; and
the same, when so transcribed, shall be as valid in law as the
original records.

Commissioners ap-

pointed to inspect
records

2. And be it enacted, That the said clerk may, at the dis-
cretion of the levy court aforesaid, employ a person to attend
at the place where said records are usually kept, or may cause
them to be carried to some ether place for the purpose of hav-
ing the same rebound, provided that the same be done under
the direction and supervision of said clerk, and in his pre-
sence.

Clerk to have re-
bound such as re-
quire it

3. And be it enacted, That the said clerk shall purchase
such books and stationary as the said commissioners, or a ma-
jority of them, may direct, for the purpose of transcribing and
annexing new indices to the said record books.

And purchase
books and stati-
onary

4. And be it enacted, That the said clerk shall be allowed to
charge six cents for every hundred words transcribed and exam-
ined, and one cent for every ten words in the new indices which
be may make for, and annex to the said record- which may be

Compensation al-
lowed